Notable Quotable

A natural response is to change the word feminist to a word with fewer stigmas attached. But inevitably the same thing will happen to that magical word. Part of the radical connotation of feminism is not due to the word, but to the action. The act of a woman standing up for herself is radical, whether she calls herself a feminist or not.

That was written by Paula Kamen, a fellow Chicago feminist and author of the book I'm currently reading, All In My Head (an epic quest to cure an unrelenting totally unreasonable and only slightly enlightening HEADACHE).